Knitwear and Circular Knit Products
Why knitted garments behave differently — and how to specify, sew and control them so the fit stays put.
Written by Sanjeewa Dehiwalage · Free online garment-industry education
3 modules · 12 subjects Intermediate About 8–10 hours of reading and quizzes at your own pace
What this course is
A free, self-paced specialist course on knitwear: knit structures and how they stretch, yarn and fibre choices, engineering t-shirts, polos, sweaters and seamless products, and controlling shade, shrinkage and measurements in a fabric that moves. Three modules, each ending with a five-question quiz.
Who it is for
- • Merchandisers and technicians working on knit programmes
- • Quality staff who measure and inspect knitted garments
- • Product developers moving from woven to knit product
- • Students specialising in knitted apparel
What you will be able to do
- • Explain how a knit structure decides stretch, recovery, curling and spirality
- • Choose yarn and fabric for a knit end use instead of copying a previous order
- • Engineer the common knit products — tee, polo, sweater, seamless — to their own construction rules
- • Control shrinkage, shade and measurement variation across a knit bulk
- • Judge which knit faults are fabric faults and which are sewing faults
Modules
Module 1 — Knit fabric foundations
Read a knit fabric specification and predict how the garment will stretch, recover, shrink and curl before a sample is made.
4 subjects · five-question quiz
Module 2 — Knit product engineering
Engineer the main knit product types correctly: the right seam and stitch for each position, the right trim, and the operations that decide whether the product survives wear.
4 subjects · five-question quiz
Module 3 — Knit quality, shade and measurement control
Set up knit-specific controls: relaxed measurement, shrinkage allowance, shade grouping and defect ownership between fabric and sewing.
4 subjects · five-question quiz
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Certificate
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